Is aspiration as detected on pretreatment video fluorography, a harbinger of poor quality of life and early mortality in cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract treated with radiotherapy?

BACKGROUND: Patients with cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract (head and neck cancer (HNC)) tend to aspirate, either due to disease or treatment. The association of aspiration (documented on video fluorography (VFG)) with quality of life (QOL) and unexpected mortality was studied prospectively i...

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Autores principales: Lal, Punita, Nautiyal, Vipul, Chaudhuri, Tamojit, Verma, Mranalini, Das, Koilpillai Joseph, Kumar, Shaleen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
Materias:
OESOPHAGEAL CANCER
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25422806
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.142968

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